You will need: Heavy-weight patterned paper, two paper straws, scissors, a piece of yarn, a glue gun (or paper glue) and eye stickers or other decorations. Click here to download my template.

Here’s how: Start by printing the template and use it on your choice of paper.

Cut the paper straws to fit the kite from corner to corner in the shape of a cross. Cut the vertical straw into two parts, as shown in the pictures above.

Thread a piece of yarn through the lower vertical part of the paper straw. Make sure you have aproximately 1 meter (3.3 feet) of yarn at the center to use as line and about 25 cm (10 inches) of yarn for the bottom tail.

Glue the straws to the back of the kite. Put an extra dot of glue at the middle and at the bottom to secure the yarn.

Cut bows using the template you printed from the beginning. You’ll need 8 pieces.

Place the bows evenly on the tail and glue them together in pairs. Be careful with the hot glue if you use a glue gun!

Now the tail is complete.

Here’s how the back of the kite will look like when it is finished.

Decorate the front of the kite with sticker eyes or other decorations. Now it’s time to take the kite for a test flight!

Ibland får jag idéer som jag tycker är rätt så bra men där det så småningom visar sig att jag tagit mig vatten över huvudet. Det här är en sådant tillfälle. Enbart tack vare hjälp från min lillebror och min mamma kunde projektet slutföras. Det hela började med att jag såg fina broderier på naturfärgade askar på Creative World mässan i Frankfurt i vintras. När jag kom hem ville jag testa något liknande och eftersom jag hade en väska i papier-maché hemma bestämde jag mig för att brodera på den… Det visade sig mer tidskrävande än jag trodde!
———Sometimes I get an idea that I think is pretty good, but where it eventually turns out that I am way over my head. This is one of those occasions. It was only with lots of help from my younger brother and my mom, that I was able to complete the project. It all started by me spotting some pretty embroidered paper boxes at the Create World fair in Frankfurt last winter. When I got home I wanted to try something similar myself, and since having a papier-mâché suitcase at hand, I decided to try to embroider on that … It proved to be much more time consuming than I thought!

Jag började med att tejpa fast ett rutat papper på väskan. Med en stoppnål och en hammare gjorde vi hål i varje kryss. Eftersom väskan var ganska tjock var det svårt att få upp nålen och därför knöt vi fast en bit garn i nålen och gjorde en ögla som man kunde dra upp nålen med. Det tog tid att göra alla hål, kan jag lova (det var där min lillebror kom in i bilden). När väl alla hål var klara var det dags att brodera korsstygn. Jag använde samma mönster som för mina pärlplattor jag gjorde i januari. Broderandet tog också mer tid än beräknat och efter att väskan stått (inte ens) halvklar i flera månader slutade det med att min hjälpsamma mamma förbarmade sig över projektet och broderade klart väskan. Som bonus broderade hon även en matchande nåldyna till mig!
——-I started by taping a piece of graph paper on top of the suitcase. With a daring needle and a hammer, we made holes in each cross of the grid. Since the bag is quite thick, it was difficult to get the needle out and to make things easier we tied a piece of yarn to the needle and made a loop to use when pulling up the needle. It took time to make all the holes, let me tell you (that was where my younger brother came into the picture). Once all the holes were punched, it was time to start to cross stitching. I used the same pattern as for those pegboards I made back in January. This part also took more time than expected and I kind of gave up. Some months later my helpful mother took pity on the project and did the rest (which was a lot!). As a bonus, she also made me a matching pincushion!

I förpackningen ingår fyra plastmallar i olika storlekar. Garnet jag använde heter Fantasia Maxi och är ett tjockt akrylgarn. Garn i akryl eller ull ger ett bättre & fluffigare resultat än bomullsgarn.
——–The kit includes four plastic pom pom makers, in different sizes. The yarn I used is called Fantasia Maxi and is a thick acrylic yarn. You get a better result with acrylic or wool yarn, than with cotton yarn.

Now with Christmas passed, I immediately start longing for spring, and doesn’t these pretty flowers give you spring feelings? My mother, a crochet pro, made the flowers (thanks mum!) and I, in my turn, used them as decorations on hair slides and added buttons in the middle. In the pictures above you can see how I did.